BNY AT SIBOS 2026

9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | From Data to Dollars: The Emerging Economics of AI Tokens
Speaker: Isabel Schmidt, Executive Platform Owner, Payments Enablement Platform

AI is no longer just a technology challenge, but an economic one. As models become more powerful and compute-intensive, financial institutions are confronting a new paradigm where every query, insight and decision carries a measurable cost. This session explores how the economics of AI tokens is reshaping innovation strategies across the industry. Are current pricing models sustainable? How are firms mitigating compute constraints while scaling AI-driven services? And could future models, from decentralized AI marketplaces to tokenized compute sharing, redefine how intelligence is produced and consumed? Expect a candid, thought-provoking discussion on the evolving ‘cost of intelligence’ and what it means for the next phase of AI in financial services.

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | AI Talent and Literacy: Building the AI-Ready Enterprise
Speaker: Anjali Shah, AI Strategy & Organizational Readiness

AI advantage is increasingly a people advantage. This panel reframes the “war for talent” as a strategic portfolio: few deep experts, strong business translators and broad literacy across the workforce. The panel will discuss what to hire versus partner for, how to build effective role-based learning, and drive AI adoption while avoiding chaos and shadow AI. The emphasis is on outcomes: how organizations measure capability growth, build confidence in responsible AI use and develop the leadership muscle to turn AI into sustained business performance.

9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Tokenized Money to Collateral Management: The Onchain Journey
Speaker: Adrian White, Global Head of the Transfer Agency for Digital Assets
Location: PwC Club | Room 203

One of the most important questions facing tokenized money is what value will it actually unlock? Stablecoin, tokenized deposits, and deposit tokens have cleared a critical threshold, with regulatory frameworks taking shape, major institutions moving beyond pilots, and infrastructure participants actively building. But adoption and regulatory acceptance were never the end goal. They were simply the ignition switch. The real prize is what tokenized money makes possible. This session focuses on that journey from programmable money to programmable collateral. The promise is collateral that moves intraday, across margin pools, and across borders in real time, freed from the batch cycles and bilateral friction that define today's market. Getting there requires every link in the chain, and the players in this room represent all of them. The goal is to leave with a clearer, shared picture of what that future actually looks like and what it will take to build it.

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | AI-Led Workforce Strategy
Speaker: Anna Domino, Global Head of Client Service for the Global Payments & Trade
Location: Room 203

Our panel is designed as a platform for your perspective, a chance to share what you’re seeing in the market, engage directly with senior peers across banking/payments, and connect in a more curated setting than the broader conference.

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.| No More Practice Runs: Scaling AI into the Core of Banking 
Speaker: Sarthak Pattanaik, Chief Data & AI Officer

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Keynote: View from the Top
Speaker: Jennifer Barker, Head of Europe, Global Head of Payments & Trade and Depositary Receipts

9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.  | Fireside Chat: Connecting Global Payments to Real-Time Rails
Host: Sabrina Chin, Vice President, RTP Product Management, The Clearing House
Speaker: Eralda Hasani, Head of Domestic Payments Products, Global Payments & Trade

Location: Exhibitor Stage

Expectations for cross-border transactions mirror those of domestic real-time payments as financial institutions are looking for ways to deliver speed, transparency, and certainty across global commerce. This session explores how the RTP® network, through an initiative that enables RTP to serve as the U.S. domestic leg of inbound and outbound cross-border payments, is making instant, cross-border payments possible for financial institutions and their clients. The speakers will discuss how banks, fintechs, and payment providers can deliver faster access to funds, richer payment data, and seamless global payment experiences while maintaining the compliance, transparency, risk management, and settlement certainty of the banking system.

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | SIBOS TV Interview
Speaker: Emily Schlosser, Global Head of Custody  

The future of custody with an integrated operating model as the foundation for investment outcomes

2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | From AI Pilots to AI-Powered Markets: Industrialising Intelligence Across Corporate and Investment Banking
Speaker: Anjali Shah, AI Strategy & Organizational Readiness

The session will bring together a small group of senior leaders to have a conversation about what it actually takes to move AI from experimentation to enterprise-scale execution: the data foundations, the governance realities, and the organizational shifts that make or break it.

4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | The Great Convergence: Blockchain Meets AI
Speaker: Rajeev Sambyal, Head of Digital Market Infrastructure

Blockchain and AI are the two key trends of our time. Yet, to date, the industry has treated them as separate and parallel streams. This session looks at when and how they might converge – and what will be the opportunities for firms as they do so. Will we have agentic AI managing tokens and smart contracts? What are the dependencies here? And can the move to richer structured data with ISO 20022 accelerate unlocking the benefits?

4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. | From Visibility to Action: Reimagining Intraday Liquidity Management in a 24/7 Payments World
Speaker: Amrita Ghanekar, Client Insights and Innovation, Global Payments & Trade

Location: Exhibitor Stage 1

As instant payments, global operations, and always-on commerce accelerate, treasury teams can no longer rely on end-of-day views of cash and liquidity. This session explores how organizations are evolving from passive visibility to proactive liquidity management by leveraging real-time payment data, analytics, and actionable insights. Hear directly from a treasury leader on the operational challenges of managing liquidity across multiple banks, currencies, and payment rails, and discuss how data-driven decisioning is reshaping treasury operations.

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | BNY Booth Reception

Location: Booth H010 Miami Beach Convention Center